Re: Windows gnuplot 4.1 libpng problems

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Andrew Brampton wrote:
> Ok, maybe the description of my problem wasn't clear enough. I didn't 
> download libpng, but whenever I try plotting a PNG it crashes.

Actually you did download libpng --- but in such a way that it was hard 
to notice.  There's a full copy of libpng inside the DLL version of GD 
you downloaded.

> I then tried to plot with a different terminal type, so I type set terminal 
> to obtain a list, and voila gnuplot crashes again once we get to the end of 
> the list! 

That rather strongly suggests that GD has nothing to do with it either: 
GD isn't involved in printing the 'set term' list.  That's starting to 
look more like this:

> Now the only difference I seem to be doing to Bastian, is that I'm using 
> Visual Studio 2003, instead of Visual C++ 6.

is the real problem.  IIRC, Boutell states rather strongly that his 
prebuilt DLL doesn't work on anything but VC++ 6.